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Favorite Philosophers?
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RE: Favorite Philosophers?
December 6, 2017 at 8:31 pm
(December 6, 2017 at 7:03 pm)Whateverist Wrote: Nietzsche is thought provoking and colorful and I confess to reading a lot of what he wrote.  But I always suspected I was reading someone who was borderline paranoid and manic or on drugs.  

Which makes his assertions wrong because...
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RE: Favorite Philosophers?
December 6, 2017 at 8:43 pm
(December 6, 2017 at 8:31 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote:
(December 6, 2017 at 7:03 pm)Whateverist Wrote: Nietzsche is thought provoking and colorful and I confess to reading a lot of what he wrote.  But I always suspected I was reading someone who was borderline paranoid and manic or on drugs.  

Which makes his assertions wrong because...


Didn't say they were.
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RE: Favorite Philosophers?
December 6, 2017 at 9:07 pm
Thomas Hobbes always stuck with me. I can't remember if I read the Leviathon or just parts of it. But the guy was way way ahead of his time, it appears.
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RE: Favorite Philosophers?
December 6, 2017 at 9:56 pm
(December 6, 2017 at 9:07 pm)wallym Wrote: Thomas Hobbes always stuck with me.  I can't remember if I read the Leviathon or just parts of it.  But the guy was way way ahead of his time, it appears.


Think he might have seen Trump coming?  Lots of people are becoming poorer, public discourse is downright nasty, his treatment of women is brutish and his term in office will likely be short.
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#15
RE: Favorite Philosophers?
December 6, 2017 at 10:22 pm
Parmenides. Immanuel Kant. David Hume. Arthur Schopenhauer. John Taurek. To name a few.
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RE: Favorite Philosophers?
December 7, 2017 at 12:19 am
During my studies of philosophy, I've found the ideas of Immanuel Kant, Georg Hegel, Augustine, Arnold Toynbee, and Bart de Ligt to be interesting.











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RE: Favorite Philosophers?
December 7, 2017 at 12:31 am
(December 6, 2017 at 9:56 pm)Whateverist Wrote:
(December 6, 2017 at 9:07 pm)wallym Wrote: Thomas Hobbes always stuck with me.  I can't remember if I read the Leviathon or just parts of it.  But the guy was way way ahead of his time, it appears.


Think he might have seen Trump coming?  Lots of people are becoming poorer, public discourse is downright nasty, his treatment of women is brutish and his term in office will likely be short.

There are certainly some aspects that he's been correct on over the past couple centuries, although I'm not sure a Monarchy would have solved all our problems.
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RE: Favorite Philosophers?
December 7, 2017 at 12:40 am
How about this one?

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Beat this phony jesus cat by 5 centuries!
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#19
RE: Favorite Philosophers?
December 7, 2017 at 1:36 am
1.Yukio Mishima
2.Frederic Wilhelm Niche
3.Plato
4.George Carlin
5.Sun Tzu
     “A man isn't tiny or giant enough to defeat anything” Yukio Mishima


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RE: Favorite Philosophers?
December 7, 2017 at 9:13 am
Aristotle, Confucius, Nietzsche, Bertrand Russell, Daniel Dennett, Shelly Kagan, ...
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